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Hernando Gomez, MD, MPH Pittsburgh, PA USA Dr. Hernando Gomez is an Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Clinical and Translational Research in the School of Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his degree as Medical Doctor from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2001, and as specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation from the same institution in 2007. He then joined the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he graduated from in 2010 as a specialist in Critical Care Medicine. In addition, he obtained his Master in Public Health from the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh in August 2014. Dr. Gomez joined as Faculty in the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh in August 2010, where he has advanced his academic career as a physician investigator. His clinical experience has been caring for critically ill patients in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit. His research interest is studying the role energy regulatory pathways, mitochondrial quality control processes and microvascular dysfunction play in the genesis of sepsis-induced organ dysfunction, with particular focus on sepsis-induced acute kidney injury. In addition Dr. Gomez also investigates the impact of autonomous, close-loop systems to provide physiology-driven resuscitation, on organ perfusion during shock. Dr. Gomez is currently funded with an R01 from NIDDK studying the effect of the use of metformin as a treatment to induce metabolic reprogramming, on the development of sepsis associated AKI, and is funded by the Department of Defense to develop a semi-closed loop system to resuscitate patients with undifferentiated shock.